UK General Election '24 - Results Watch Thread

[Randy Winkman]

Apparently it was raining in Scotland today which might have affected the SNP vote.

[anonymoususer]

TeaNoSugar said:

anonymoususer said:

Ian Duncan Smith may well lose his seat
I think he will go quietly

It’s time for the quiet man (to leave quietly by the back door)!

I think he will resist turning up the volume

[Steve vRS]

PlywoodPascal said:

That red Vauxhall meriva thing (??) needs a bit of a polish

Truckosaurus said:

In the race for first announcement: A ballot box has been delivered in Blythe by a bright blue Focus RS.

Good old PH.

[Barchettaman]

l354uge said:

People weren't voting Labour because they liked what they saw from them, they just knew they really didn't like what they saw from the Tories.

That’s a pretty impressive skill: to know exactly why 13 million people (give or take) cast their vote.

Seriously, did you even think about how daft that statement looked before you posted it?

[B'stard Child]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

How does this compare to 1997? Bit too young to recall that one.

Lab 418 seats (+146)

Tories 165 seats (-176)

Lib Dem 46 (+28)

[MiniMan64]

The irony that the Tories are treating this as a minor victory as the polling was so bad.

Meanwhile the SNP are dying in the corner.

[Steve vRS]

Barchettaman said:

l354uge said:

People weren't voting Labour because they liked what they saw from them, they just knew they really didn't like what they saw from the Tories.

That’s a pretty impressive skill: to know exactly why 13 million people (give or take) cast their vote.

Seriously, did you even think about how daft that statement looked before you posted it?

It’s probably not a million miles away from the truth .

[B'stard Child]

MiniMan64 said:

<snip> Meanwhile the SNP are dying in the corner.

Delicious

[Roderick Spode]

Image of the night so far.

[l354uge]

Barchettaman said:

l354uge said:

People weren't voting Labour because they liked what they saw from them, they just knew they really didn't like what they saw from the Tories.

That’s a pretty impressive skill: to know exactly why 13 million people (give or take) cast their vote.

Seriously, did you even think about how daft that statement looked before you posted it?

That's my opinion, this is a forum. Look at the increase (or decrease) in the labour vote, apart from Scotland it's tiny. Wales it's gone down. This will be painted as a vindication of Starmer but the numbers show this is more of a rejection of Sunak and his party and a split right.

When Blair won the labour voting swing was much larger

[Wiccan of Darkness]

B'stard Child said:

MiniMan64 said:

<snip> Meanwhile the SNP are dying in the corner.

Delicious

They'll need a bloody big campervan to cart all the bodies away. Luckily for the SNP......

[B'stard Child]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

B'stard Child said:

MiniMan64 said:

<snip> Meanwhile the SNP are dying in the corner.

Delicious

They'll need a bloody big campervan to cart all the bodies away. Luckily for the SNP......

Bravo

[Rick_1138]

Angus Robertson "it's a UK election to get rid of the tories...."

So they still like you then....tt

[hidetheelephants]

Randy Winkman said:

Apparently it was raining in Scotland today which might have affected the SNP vote.

You jest but it has pissed it down intermittently all day, it does discourage those less determined to exercise their franchise.

[Rick_1138]

What's also good is this allows Starmer to tell the SNP to poke it, he doesn't need any help

[Vanden Saab]

Roderick Spode said:

Image of the night so far.

I didn't know Eddie Izzard was Scottish.

[towser44]

PlywoodPascal said:

Lols

This was funny, Steve Baker was in the same studio as a guest :-)

[Rick_1138]

I see jezza vine saying the marginal Scottish seats may still stay tory and not fall to SNP...oh please.

[Truckosaurus]

Is there anywhere with a seat-by-seat exit poll estimate?

(eg. what Jerry Vine is standing in front of)

[Ridgemont]

Truckosaurus said:

Is there anywhere with a seat-by-seat exit poll estimate?

(eg. what Jerry Vine is standing in front of)

He’s looking at swings based on the exit polls.

I suspect it won’t play out like that.